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Yarrows
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2831
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2831 (2831)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wick
- National Grid reference
- ND 3041 4226
- Latitude
- 58.36340
- Longitude
- -3.19103
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1910); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Earthwork Survey (1983); Other (2004)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2224
- National record
- record ND 34 SW 54; monument 9062
- Wikidata
- Q31101038
Sources
References
- Mercer, R J (1985) Archaeological Field Survey in Northern Scotland Volume III 1982-1983. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology, Occasional Paper No. 11. Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1911) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness. HMSO, London